After forty days without a fish, the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone with another boat which caught three good fish the first week.

四十天没钓到一条鱼，男孩的父母告诉他，老人现在是“撒劳”了，这是最倒霉的倒霉事。于是男孩和另一条船一起去了，这条船在第一个星期就钓到了三条好鱼。

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Near sunset, still without a fish, he decided to turn back.

日落时分，他仍一无所获，便决定打道回府。

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The nets captured a few more trout than they would have without the flood but did not show substantial flushing of native fish, whose ancestors had, after all, survived many larger natural floods.

与没有洪水时相比，渔网捕获了更多的鳟鱼，但并没有显示本地鱼类的大量泛滥，毕竟它们的祖先在许多更大的自然洪水中幸存了下来。

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